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hi_am_chris:
Ok so down to 18 players in a two dollar rebuy on gala poker, tables are currently 9 handed and your second to act with 99, you have a stack of about 120.000 and players have stacks ranging from about 50 k up to 350/400 k ish. Blinds are 10 and 20k, whats the correct play?

kinboshi:
Shove.

hi_am_chris:
im being results orientated but can u fold that hand in the above situation?

tumblet:

--- Quote from: Kinboshi on July 10, 2008, 10:24:31 AM ---
Shove.

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--- Quote from: hi_am_chris on July 10, 2008, 10:28:55 AM ---
im being results orientated but can u fold that hand in the above situation?

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If the result you want is a win, then I dont see how you can fold, you have 5 BB after the next hand..

Jon MW:
I think the 2 factors to consider are:

1. you are very short stacked
2. everybody is short stacked.

As such I think a lot of options could be considered as good valid ways to proceed. Although I think most of them would involve you getting all your money in one way or another.

If your table seems quite lively and you think an all in bet is likely to be called then shoving will probably work, hopefully it will limit the calls to one person.

If your table seems tighter then I would probably limp and hope for a short stack to shove.

If you limp and nobody raises I"d probably shove on the flop.

The only complication I think would arise where you limp and you get 3 or 4 other players limping after you. Judgement after the flop would probably be critical in this case.

The only time I would consider folding with this hand would depend on whether you were looking to cash a bit higher or to win. If you limped and some raisers after you made it clear that you were likely to be all in against 3 or 4 opponents then you are highly unlikely to win, and it is quite likely that at least a couple of players would be knocked out. So the safe option would be to fold your 9"s, but if you want to win overall then I think this would be a great opportunity to gamble - you would be very likely to get knocked out - but if you weren"t then you"d be around the chip lead.

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